Two more down and only ... 7 more to go!

Well I'm pretty excited I finished two more HST Blocks!! :) Now I only have seven more to go and I'm really proud of the color sceme for my May month as it pulls colors and greens into the block. April brings in purples with the main pink color and it makes me think of tulips. That is another scheme I'm going to attempt one day. But I definately see an improvement on my HST.

Catching Up

So after Christmas is over and the girls' birthdays have passed I finally have a little bit of time to try to get caught up. Or at least I'm gonna try to catch up. I am several months past the HST project and although I have just finished March (yeah I know I am REALLY behind) I am already getting the squares ready for April's HST's. I'm also hopeful that I can get my ladybug quilt done for my daughter Rayne. I have also been working on my knitting and although I have a long way to go on that one, I'm determined that ONE DAY I will finish it! lol I also have a quilt I'm trying to work on that I took from a McCalls Quilting book and although I have a few of the squares and shapes cut out I'm still a long way from saying it's done. So as you can tell I'm trying to get caught up. Cross fingers and wish for the best! :)

HST Block of the Month

Okay so I am trying this Half Square Triangle Block of the Month http://www.incolororder.com/p/block-of-month.html and was having difficulties making the triangles meet up right... so I redid it and although it is better it's still a little bit off.. so I'm thinking that it must just take practice. Please pardon the tinkerbell table .. haha.. it's my daughters and makes a great sewing table..

The smaller of the two blocks is the first block I did and the larger block is the second one I did. I didn't cut down the blocks to see if it would matter as far as the squares meeting up better.. and although it didn't seem to matter so much about the size it does look good! This block is the January Block. I'm a little behind but it looks like it will be fun. Thanks Kadybug for suggestion!!

Beginning Quilter

I am almost done with my very first quilt and I am so proud of it! I am making a quilt intended for my youngest daugher; Rayne (19 months) and so far I think it is a success. I had layed it down on the floor last night putting all my pins in it so that I could sew the top quilt to the cotton and base of the quilt (yeap I'm a newbie so I don't have all the correct terminology down). Rayne began to crawl all over it and jumped around dancing on it and twirling so I think that it met with her approval! Yay Me!